Firm foundations: structural protection from the bottom up
Firm foundations: structural protection from the bottom up
- 1993
- Chartered Builder 5(7) September 1993, 11-13(3) .
Summaries three papers presented at a recent Instiute of Building Control seminar looking at the effect of tree roots on building foundations, identifying suitable techniques for carrying out subsidence investigation such as distortion surveys, level monitoring and filter-paper suction measurement and a review of underpinning methods including traditional underpinning, jack-down piling, cantilever piling and beam and pin piling with diagrams.
CANTILEVER PILING
DISTORTION SURVEYS
BUILT ENVIRONMENT-BUILDING ELEMENTS-COMPLETE BUILDING ELEMENTS-FOUNDATIONS
JACK-DOWN PILES
MONITORING
PIN PILING
SITE INVESTIGATION
SUBSIDENCE
TREE ROOTS
Summaries three papers presented at a recent Instiute of Building Control seminar looking at the effect of tree roots on building foundations, identifying suitable techniques for carrying out subsidence investigation such as distortion surveys, level monitoring and filter-paper suction measurement and a review of underpinning methods including traditional underpinning, jack-down piling, cantilever piling and beam and pin piling with diagrams.
CANTILEVER PILING
DISTORTION SURVEYS
BUILT ENVIRONMENT-BUILDING ELEMENTS-COMPLETE BUILDING ELEMENTS-FOUNDATIONS
JACK-DOWN PILES
MONITORING
PIN PILING
SITE INVESTIGATION
SUBSIDENCE
TREE ROOTS